After Tuesday night
one thing is for sure, it is worthdriving almost 500 miles roundtrip to see these wonderful
musicians!! Thetrip down took about 4 1/2 hours, and I
was lucky enough to get a
parking spaceright around the corner from the club.

CB 313 Gallery is a
satellite club ofthe well known CBGB'S

I had a couple of hours to kill so after a
15 minutewalk into Little Italy I had a great dinner al fresco right on
MulberryStreet. Afterwards I returned to the club which had just
opened it's doors for the night.

Within a few minutes Marina, Julie, Emil, and Sylvia
(more on her in minute)arrived. I also met the drummer for the new group Doug Yowell. I
must say Ialmost didn't recognize Julie...her hair is much darker than
during the OPera, and she is thinner than the pictures/video I have seen of
her.

After talking
with them allfor a bit they all climbed onstage for a quick sound check. With
only about 10people in the place they belted out RETURN TO ME & ALWAYS
with Marina on leadvocals ! :-)

The opening act, which Marina had booked, went on first.
They were called TheTwo Siberians, and were literally just off the plane from Russia.
One fellow played the guitar, and the other the electric violin. If you
were/are a fan ofJean-Luc Ponty you would have loved these guys. I know I enjoyed
them a lot.

By now the club had filled up, and there had to be a
crowd numbering in thehundreds. They were all there to see Marina and October
Project. After the set ended theplace emptied out.

Marina came out to much applause. She
sounded WONDERFUL!! I always knew shehad a beautiful voice, but I really had no idea it was that good.
She iscertainly capable of fronting a band of her own. The news now is
that she willcontinue writing her own material, and hopefully get a CD
together in the next 6 months or so. Emil is serving as her musical director, and they
will sharethe same manager. Marina will not at this point be a part of the new band that Emil
and Juliehave formed.

The audience received her set warmly...there were
tons of herfamily, and also we October Project fans present in large
numbers. Below isher set list, as best I could reassemble it:

1) Sorry I Am

Ani Difranco

2) Cactus Tree

Joni
Mitchell

3)Have A Little Faith In Me

John Hiatt

4)Blue Train

???

5)Return To Me

October
Project

6)Take Me As I Am

October
Project

7)Take All The Pain???

Marina Belica

8)Always

October
Project

9) And So It Goes

Billy
Joel

During Return To Me, Marina brought onstage David Sabatino and Urbano Sanchez.
They remained on stage for the rest of
the set. Urbano played talking drum adding a unique sound and Dave played
electric guitar.

Marina introduced
Take Me As I Am by saying this song
was initially
a solo, not the duet that Mary and herself performed. Marina
confidently
sang both lead parts, backed VERY ably by Sylvia Toessens who sang backing vocals
throughout the entire set.

Take All The Pain...or perhaps What Do I Have To Hold Onto
was the one song I do know was written by Marina...but she
did not give the title of it,so these are guesses. The song was outstanding, and
makes me look forward to hearing more of her songwriting efforts down the
road!)

Julie Flanders came onstage to make her vocal debut during Always Always is one of my favorite OP tunes, and
they pulled the difficult vocals off quite well.) This was
Marina's closing number, but after a well deserved standing ovation she returned for one
more song
with just Emil and their lead guitar player Gerry Leonard.

(Paul
Socolow was on bass guitar the whole show.)

As an encore, the band
played And So It Goes
by BILLY JOEL Marina's version was very heartfelt
and touching